September 13, 2026
Tag: Maud Adams
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The Maud Adams You Don’t Know
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Maude Adams (not Maud Adams the Bond Girl, she doesn’t have the “e”) was an astonishingly successful stage actor who burst onto the New York stage in 1896 with J. M. Barrie’s The Little Minister and in 1905 played the title role in Barrie’s Peter Pan. Alphonse Mucha painted her. She toured with her own…
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August 21, 2025 4 Comments
In 1899, the White Star Line president, a guy named Ismay, had a plan to build four ships in ten years. Each would be large and luxurious. They were Celtic, Baltic, Cedric, and Adriatic. Their stories are told in this Postcard History lesson. If it didn’t sound so corny, we would wish you, Bon Voyage!